The two males you refer to in your pictures have been hanging around in the southern part for quite a while now, they are normally seen from Leeuwdrill to Houmoed. The brand marks on the lions you see on some of the lions in the park are those of lions who have transgressed outside the park. Once they were darted and brought back into the park they are brand marked so that management can keep record on the lions which leaves the park. Each lion which has to be brought back will have a different brand mark for identification purposes.

These look amazingly like the 2 brothers we saw at the picnic site, junction of the North Dunes Road as it reaches the Nossob river valley. In fact I am pretty certain it is them. But that is a long way !!! We saw them about 22 March 2012.What stunned us was the size of the elder brother. When he stood up we were taken aback. tallest lion I have ever seen.

Any pics of the two male lions you saw?! Would luv to see!If it is the same lions, I agree with you, the blonder of the two was eeennnooormous!!When he stood up behind the bushes, I was speechless, never have I seen a bigger one!!Absolutely gorgeous, very high on the legs, quite lean at the time.Maybe they are nomads roaming around looking for a pride to take over.Dr. Philip Stander who runs the Desert Lion Project in the Kaokoveld of Namibia,recorderd that one male lion walked the distance of 90 km in 48 hours!!

Interested in the Desert Lion Project?The Desert Lion Project had quite a setback recently due to the coldblooded shooting of adult males by trophy hunters. Only about two remained. Three lionesses now have given birth to five cubs and all fiveare males! Isn't nature extraordinary? What man has taken out, nature is giving back.How can you ever look into those yellow eyes and lift a gun?!!

If you or any of the other forum members are interested in the Desert Lion Project, go to:www.desert lion.comIt is really worthwhile to follow!

I'm desperately trying to find out whether I got to see 'my' Mr. Handsome from Nossob again on our last trip. But the photos I have to compare to aren't totally informative. So I would like to ask all of you crazy KTP lovers (I'm allowed to say that - I'm crazy myself ) to please post some photos here, if you got some of the Nossob Brothers. Pretty please?

*edit* Oh, and I have been throught the Lions of the Kgalagadi thread several times now, but even though there are some photos of them, I'm still not sure yet.

A beautiful photo regarding the affection but the both of themdon't look all too happy nor too healthy. Mr. Handsome looksas if he was limping? (Right hind leg)

Where did you take this photo? Just outside Nossob?

Now with that photo telling me with 99% certainty that Idid not capture Mr. Handsome nor his brother in Octoberat Nossob waterhole, I wonder if it is possible that there are more or less 4 adult males in the greater area.

Does anybody have any information regarding that?Could it be that the Nossob brothers were dethroned bysome younger males?